Almost to the halfway point...

Mr. Bluth finished his first year of law school!!

One down and two more to go and Mr. Bluth is almost to the half way point!

These last two weeks Mr. Bluth has studied, studied, and studied. On Thursday after Mr. Bluth's last long day of studying, he came home and fell asleep on the couch while dinner was being prepared and then finally Friday morning he took his last exam. Does the sound of a four hour exam sound appealing to anyone?!

To celebrate that evening we simply just watched a movie (but it has been a long time since we have watched a movie together).

The real celebration began on Saturday because there was no need for Mr. Bluth to go to the library! As the famous quote goes: It's the little things that count in life. And the little thing that Mr. Bluth did not need to spend one hour in the library was amazing.

A morning run, Saturday chores, a trip to the Apple store (so grateful for a warranty), about 4.5 hours of walking all over Lincoln Park, and babysitting made for a great way to celebrate the defeat of the first year.

We found this conservatory and you feel like you are not even in the city so we sat and admired the ducklings.

City living often means having a child sleep in a closet or even having three children share one room in a two bedroom apartment. The family we babysat for just moved here from spacious Utah and the three children needed to get out of their apartment. We went to the park and we love the fact that the playground was huge and contained many things to run around and do and yet little Reese just wanted to sit on the animal statues.

Funny tidbit from the weekend was that we helped in Nursery. A perk for the children of having church at a school is that the nursery age children get to run around crazy in the gym.

The children enjoy running around the gym and playing and their laughter echoes so that every ear can hear them.

One cannot also miss the sound of a child crying/screaming.

While Mrs. Bluth was trying to calm a child down, Mr. Bluth insisted on taking a picture. Her facial expressions were hilarious.